I am Thankful for Birds and Insects

This week was........horrible!!! I had only 3 kids so I thought 3 kids was gonna be no problem they were gonna be quiet and be cooperative but no that was not the case. I barely got through my lesson and about every 5 seconds I had to tell one girl to sit down and be quiet.

She kept hiding like a dog, or she wouldnt find a place and just sit. She would also be really loud and to be honest really really obnoxious.

I had to count to 5 probably 10 times for one girl

Because of this girl the other kids thought it would be okay to jump off the table just like her or run around the room.

The only time they were actually cooperative was when we played this game. it was like duck duck goose ( which we ended up playing anyway just to get them to stop asking) but there was a butterfly that landed on someone.

I got them to sit down and color this picture of a ladybug and they actually did this calmly.

And they got disney fruit snacks. i was hoping for bug ones but apparently they dont make them. And these looked soooo goood. It was fast sunday because of conference next week and I got a wiff of the smell and it made me so hungry!!!

Sharing time was horrible too.

Mason and Serrina kept grabbing each other and not pay attention so I had to split them up  and they still tried to touch each other.

Mostly this week they just didnt want to pay attention to anything at all I was done with kids by sacrament meeting I was ready to take a nap.

till next time, jodi

I am Thankful for Animals

This week in sunbeams we talked about being thankful for animals. There is this little girl in my class who loves to say the prayer she offers every time to say both opening and closing, her one condition she gets to say " name of jesus christ, amen" all by herself I have to help her with the rest.

I started off asking the kids to tell me about different kinds of animals. I got everything from dogs, cats, bears, deer, and unicorns......yep unicorns. I asked if they had any pets and Kenadie said she had a unicorn and a cat for a pet.

After we were done talking about pets which took about 5 minutes I showed them pictures of animals and had them tell what they were and the sound they made.......I mostly just got the sound.

I found out something yesterday, bigger picture means more time they spend on coloring it and they were excited to color this one. Some of them had pink elephants and green bears. We talked about Noah's ark but the story didnt last very long and they were all asking to color.

I made them cowboy cookies ( chocolate chip cookies with oatmeal) this week and only 3 ate the whole thing.

Kenadie told me they werent chocolate chip cookies, they were chocolate medicine cookies

I had only maybe 5 meltdowns during all of primary.

1. Mason started crying because he wanted to put an x for his name on the roll but everyone got there before him

2. Ian started crying because Mason colored on his boat.

3. Serrina cried because she wasnt first in line at the drinking fountain.....again.

4. Kenadie started crying because the other boy took away the doll she was playing with.

oh wait, while I was taking Kenadie to find her parents Mason I guess pinched himself and was crying. The rest of singing time he was like " Im too tired for singing", " Im hungry", " I wanna go home"

Kenadie loves to feel my fingernails to make sure they arent too long or else my dad will have to cut them for me.

She also asked me why my hair had turned blue, she noticed my blue hair.

I think thats all for this week

till next time, jodi

The Adventures of being a sunbeam teacher

I got a call a few weeks ago to sub the sunbeam class while the original teacher is home with her new baby and I accepted I didnt even think twice. I figured doing something like this would help me gain experience for when I actually become a teacher plus the kids were so cute.

Last week I taught my first lesson and it was about being thankful for fish. I had to teach them that god created fish and we talked about all sorts of fish. They even colored a picture of a fish

First my lesson only lasted about 5 minutes till all the kids started doing something else.

The coloring lasted maybe 2 minutes.

I tried playing this game where there were 5 fishes and then one swam away till there was only 1 left but only 3 would participate. I did try and play red light, green light but that didnt go over too well.

I even gave them goldfish. One little boy was like " Really?" and he looked at with this face that had me laughing.

We go to get a drink and they just run down the hall before I get a chance to actually leave the classroom. One girl had started crying because she wanted to get a drink first but someone cut her in line.

Little kids are so dramatic.

Sharing time was just pure chaos. I had to tell at least 3 out of the 5 kids that they need to sit down. I had one on my lap for about 10 minutes then she left and then another kid got on my lap before I even knew what was happening. He spent the whole time trying to figure out how i was wearing my necklace.

By sacrament meeting I was basically done, I was exhausted and all i wanted to do was sleep.

till next time,jodi

A picture of me and 5 good things: Day 30

Ive been waiting for to do this one. I've wanted 5 good things to actually happen to me or else it wouldnt have been a good post. But nothing ever did until I started thinking this morning while not paying attention in class that the 5 good things dont need to be like a new job ( i wish) or something like that but just small things. My five good things are 1. I get the opportunity to teach the sunbeams at church for 2 months and they are honestly the best part of my week. I plan on putting a blogpost every week about what we did in class, you'll probably laugh. 2. I got a little rebellious this weekend and put a fake blue extension in my hair. You're probably thinking " so what?" well ive never dyed my hair ever and my mom has this whole thing against it she practically freaked out. Also I've always been normal, i have normal clothes a normal hair style and I always keep myself normal and try to blend in. This blue streak makes me feel cooler than I already am and I love it! 3. I had spring break a couple weeks ago, so it was good to  just relax and not work on homework that much, plus I watched a couple movies with a friend and saw Red Riding Hood which was awesome!!!. 4. I hung out with my sister ( i know lame I do it all the time ) but we took her dogs on a walk and I finally got some more exercise!!!! (that was the good thing, the exercise) plus her dogs are hilarious. 5. I saw BEASTLY!!! I am in love with this book and was super excited for this movie and have been waiting for it for like 8 months so me and my sisters took the afternoon and went down to Ogden to see it together and it was AWESOME!!! i kinda wanna see it again!!

Some of those were pretty lame, my life is kind of in this rut of just boredom and the same thing day after day so nothing exciting happens, also no picture of me sorry I need my hair cut so its not looking good, plus i look the same as in the picture I posted the last time.

till next time, jodi

3 wishes: Day 29

1. I wish I had the money to never have to worry about paying for college again.
2. I wish that my life will be the best ever.
3. Does wishing for more wishes count? I have no more wishes that I would like to share, yeah those are lame I know but what would you wish for?
                till next time, jodi

Something that stresses me out: day 28

Something that stresses me out hmm.....well lets see on top of my list would be school. But college stresses everyone out, theres like a never ending pile of homework and studying and worrying about grades and how you did on the paper. Also how you are going to pay for school. Thankfully I had a loan this year but next year I have no idea what Im gonna do and add on im finally moving to logan next year to actually go to the campus and living in an apartment so now i gotta think about paying for that each month and finding a job up in logan so i know i'll be secure when i move up there. A lot of other things stress me out, there is a huge long list. I sometimes have to take a mental health day just so get away from the stress for a little bit.

till next time,jodi

An Original Picture of Your City: Day 27

This one is IMPOSSIBLE!!! I doubt they even have a picture of this city that basically is divided into two sections, each on one side of the highway that runs through our town. And perry is an extremely small town, if they had a picture its probably somewhere hidden and no one will let anyone take it home with them. So sorry about no picture, you'll just have to come visit. while youre here stop at Maddox or Call's, they have great food.
                     till next time, jodi